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The Tasmanian Electoral Commission says an offer by an independent candidate to give voters a lottery ticket is not breaking the rules.
Tim Parish who is standing in Bass says he will give a $1.10 ticket to every eligible voter if he is elected.
Mr Parish says voters will not be able to redeem their tickets until [...]

Pressure is mounting on New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally to take a leadership role in transforming inner-city Newcastle from its current shabby state.
Business leaders have written to Ms Keneally urging her to come to the city to meet key stakeholders.
It has been a year since the Government-appointed Hunter Development Corporation recommended measures to revitalise [...]

A forum will be held in Coffs Harbour tomorrow to discuss the progress of flood mitigation measures in the city.
A similar forum was held three months ago where residents voiced their concerns about the current flood measures and made suggestions.
Mayor Keith Rhoades says a $6 million loan to help fast-track the works is going towards [...]

ATLANTA — A Georgia man accused of killing two people is trying to get his murder charges dismissed by using the Census defense.
Floyd Wayne Williams Jr. is saying the charges should be dropped — or at least his trial should be delayed — until the 2010 Census is done. He says that way a [...]

COPENHAGEN, March 1 (Reuters) – Danish shipper D/S Torm (TORM.CO) said on Monday Jacob Meldgaard would start as new chief executive on April 1, succeeding the current CEO Mikael Skov, who will leave the company this month.
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Skov has worked at Torm since 1984 and took over as CEO in 2008. [...]

Andhra Bank Raises Rs 600 cr Via Bonds
Andhra Bank has raised Rs 600 crore by selling bonds in two tranches in current month.
The bank raised Rs 280 crore by issuing upper Tier-II bonds. The annual coupon of for this issue was 8.70 per cent. The issue opened on December 14, 2009 and closed on December [...]

New Delhi, Sep 16 (ANI): Ministry of Rural Development has embarked upon a major initiative to set up one Rural Self Employment Training Institute (RSETI) in each district of the country.

The ministry has so far approved [...]

London, Sept 11 (ANI): Eight out of 10 Britons use current climatic conditions as the opening line when meeting a stranger, a new survey has found.

Queueing is their another favourite habit, with 70 percent of Brits favouring to wait in [...]

New Delhi, Sep 10(ANI): Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday announced that more than 21400 new schools will be opened and over 52,000 teachers will be recruited during the current year under ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’.

Sibal [...]

London, Sep.9 (ANI): England batsman Kevin Pietersen will not be available for the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the upcoming Twenty20 Champions League.

The big-hitting batsman, 29, is currently recovering from surgery on his Achilles after missing out on the last three Ashes Tests.

That knock has also ruled him out of [...]

Southampton (UK), Sep.9 (ANI): Speedster Brett Lee is of the view that the Australians are holding the momentum in the current seven-match ODI series against England and must make it 3-0 on Wednesday at Southampton’s Rose Bowl.

“Momentum in a series is huge. We’ve got to make sure we capitalise on that, but make [...]

Lahore, Sep.5 (ANI): Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief and a close associate of former President General Pervez Musharraf, Nasim Ashraf has said that Saudi authorities are very concerned about Pakistan’s present political condition.

Terming Musharraf’s recent Riyadh visit a ’success’, Ashraf said [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 25 (ANI): With the Malaysian Tourism Ministry planning to introduce a new facility in order to achieve its one million visitors target, Indian tourists planning to visit Malaysia will now be able to obtain travel visas within a day.

The Star quoted the country’s Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen, as saying that the [...]

Sydney, Aug. 22 (ANI): Australia faces a long struggle to survive at The Oval, believes noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.

According to Roebuck, an interesting few days awaits as skilful batsmen contend with fast bowlers bent [...]

London, Aug 22 (ANI): An international team of physicists have revealed that metamaterials, which are currently being used to make real-life invisibility cloaks, may soon shrink cellphone antennas, leading to smaller gadgets.

The new metamaterial antennas could be tuned to a range of different frequencies as required.

It could be tuned to work efficiently across [...]

Washington, Aug 21 (ANI): Our nostrils may look like a happy pair, but according to a new study, when they pick up conflicting scents, the nose holes become deadly rivals.

The study, published online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, explains that when the nose encounters two different scents simultaneously, the brain processes them [...]

Washington, Aug 21(ANI): It’s true: When people are lost, they walk in circles. That’s the conclusion of a new research which has also found the reason behind it.

Scientists in the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, led by Jan Souman and Marc Ernst, have presented the [...]

Washington, Aug 20 (ANI): Cigarette smokers have fewer and flatter taste buds, says a new study on Greek soldiers.

The research on the tongues of 62 soldiers, published in the open access journal BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders, has demonstrated how cigarettes deaden the ability to taste.

Pavlidis Pavlos led a team of researchers from the [...]

Washington, August 9 (ANI): A new piece of research has found that fewer black women with postgraduate degrees are getting married and having children.

“In the past nearly four decades, black women have made great gains in higher education rates, yet these gains appear to have come increasingly at the cost of marriage and family,” [...]

Islamabad, Aug 8 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board’s newly appointed chief selector Iqbal Qasim has stated that controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar still has a future in international cricket.

Qasim said: “The door is not closed on Shoaib Akhtar, he can still play cricket for Pakistan in future, [...]